UK Government Tender Notices for September 2025

UK public procurement notices published via the Find a Tender service for the month of September 2025. The Crown Commercial Service provides this collection of official contract opportunities. Each daily notice file is stored in XML format.

Use Cases

• Classify procurement notices by sector using text content from XML fields like `<title>` or `<description>`.
• Extract key entities such as contracting authorities, bid deadlines, and contract values from structured XML tags.
• Analyze temporal trends in tender publication volume and frequency across the month of September 2025.
• Train text models to identify procurement categories (e.g., IT, construction) from notice descriptions.

Strengths

• Official source from the UK Crown Commercial Service, ensuring authoritative data.
• Covers a complete calendar month (September 2025) of national procurement activity.
• Data is structured in XML, providing potential for parsing nested fields and attributes.

Limitations

• Unknown total notice count and file size, limiting assessment of dataset scale.
• Limited to one month of data, restricting longitudinal or seasonal trend analysis.
• Data format is XML-only, requiring specific parsers and lacking direct tabular representation.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official publication of government procurement notices.

Time Range

September 2025.

Freshness

Dataset metadata was last updated in April 2026, but core data is from September 2025.

Geography

United Kingdom.